<scholz.lothar@gmail.com> wrote in message news:08-06-018@comp.compilers...> My project is to create an eiffel like compiler.> For the final optimized results i will generate c code, but i would> like to use something else for faster updates in the edit-compile-run> cycle.

I've found C compilers (even linkers) to be pretty fast now for reasonable
sized programs.

How slow would be your edit-compile-run cycle using C output? Or is the
bottleneck in your generation of C code?

What would be the output of your front-end anyway, if you don't use C?